I've been searching but I can't find a thread about this. Sorry if I missed this. I can insert soft synths fine but when I want to go back to their GUIs to make changes they won't come up. What am I doing wrong? I always double click their icons in the browser and that always worked fine. Some other way I don't know about? Thanks you for your help. ~EFaaT

This goes for VSTi and effects as well! :(

I am having the same issue. Although, I can bring up the Soft Synth property page from the browser but not the track Icon.

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Soft synths and effects don't do me much good if I can't open their GUIs to make changes. I hope I can figure something out. I don't want to go back to X1.

For getting to a soft synth's property page, I just double click in the Browser Pane, with the Synth tab clicked (Browse Synth Rack), and what I am double-clicking on there is the icon on the far left side of a given synth's entry there - the icon looks like a little round midi connector and a keyboard.

That opens up the property page for the desired synth without fail for me, and it has not changed in that for several years - at least 8.5 I believe.

Can you please tell me precisely what you are double-clicking on?

Also, I open up an inserted effect's property page by simply double-clicking on it in the effects bin for the track/bus in question.

Can you tell me there as well what precisely you are double-clicking on that it is not coming up?

Bob Bone

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For getting to a soft synth's property page, I just double click in the Browser Pane, with the Synth tab clicked (Browse Synth Rack), and what I am double-clicking on there is the icon on the far left side of a given synth's entry there - the icon looks like a little round midi connector and a keyboard.

That opens up the property page for the desired synth without fail for me, and it has not changed in that for several years - at least 8.5 I believe.

Can you please tell me precisely what you are double-clicking on?

Also, I open up an inserted effect's property page by simply double-clicking on it in the effects bin for the track/bus in question.

Can you tell me there as well what precisely you are double-clicking on that it is not coming up?

Bob Bone

Same here. all works as it always has. Where is the icon you're double-clicking?

  I just tested it, and double-clicking the synth icon in the track pane still brings it up for me. That probably doesn't help you much, but at least you know it is still functional in the program. One thing I did notice - there are actually two little keyboard/synth icons if you have the track pane expanded - the upper one opens the properties, and the bottom one just toggles how vertically expanded the track is.

The track icon you need isn't the large one of the two it's the one in the track header (the small one just to the left of the track name).

If it isn't showing select "Main menu--->View--->Icons-->Track View--->Show in Header"

HTH

Hi there Thomas

Just to add to what's been said (although it's probably not the case here), clicking on the icon will not open the GUI if the synth is frozen.

OK guys, many thanks for the responses. I have been clicking (since X1) on the synth icon on the left of the browser pane, as you described. Always worked before. Those synths were not frozen. UPDATE: Last night I had no problem opening the synths as described. I'm going to chalk it up to something on my system but, really, it's a very lean, clean nearly Sonar-only system, so I don't know what interfered. It wasn't a one-time thing either. It was a few days of struggle for me. Crossing my fingers that stays OK because you know a synth without a GUI useless. Thanks again. You guys are a gift to many of us in need! :)